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Power & Politics in Project Management

Author Jeffrey K. Pinto
Release Date: 1996/01/01
ISBN: 9781628251623
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Power and Politics in Project Management offers you something that is immediately useful in your day-to-day business dealings-a better and more sensitive set of warning signals for spotting and reacting appropriately to unseemly political ploys. Pinto presents a combination of theory and practice, laying a foundation of important guiding principles that put project politics in proper context. Once you understand how pervasive political behavior is, you will learn to take steps to minimize its potentially negative effects on your projects. This is a lifesaving book every seasoned or aspiring project management practitioner should have!

Table of Contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. 1: Project Management and the Problem of Politics
  7. 2: Stakeholder Analysis and Project Management
  8. 3: Power and the Project Manager
  9. 4: What is Organizational Politics?
  10. 5: How you will Become a Victim of Politics
  11. 6: Project Management Politics: Some Real World Examples
  12. 7: Negotiation Skills
  13. 8: Conflict and Project Management
  14. 9: Managerial Implications: What do we Do?
  15. References
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